TII Technology Acquired By OPAQUE To Advance Confidential AI
KUALA LUMPUR, May 5 (Bernama) -- Technology Innovation Institute (TII) has announced that its advanced cryptographic artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have been acquired by OPAQUE, a San Francisco-based confidential AI company.
The technologies add capabilities including confidential AI model training using advanced cryptographic techniques such as multi-party computation and fully homomorphic encryption, as well as post-quantum cryptographic protections.
According to TII in a statement, the acquisition marks the first time cryptographic AI technologies developed in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been acquired and deployed at scale by a United States-based technology company.
TII Chief Executive Officer, Dr Najwa Aaraj said the partnership enables the transition of research into global deployment.
“We developed these cryptographic technologies to address a fundamental challenge in AI. OPAQUE was the right partner to bring this to market because it has already built the enterprise platform and customer base to deploy it at scale,” she said.
Meanwhile, OPAQUE Co-Founder, Ion Stoica said the acquisition strengthens the company’s ability to secure sensitive data across AI workflows.
“With this acquisition, OPAQUE is the only platform delivering hardware-attested cryptographic evidence across the full AI lifecycle with protections engineered to withstand quantum-era threats,” he said.
The acquired technology extends OPAQUE’s platform across the full AI lifecycle — including training, fine-tuning, inference and AI agent execution — delivering verifiable security guarantees at each stage.
The integration enables enterprises and sovereign AI programmes to move from experimentation to production deployment four to five times faster, supported by enhanced data protection.
Foundational AI technology developed in Abu Dhabi will now be deployed across financial services, healthcare, and government, where secure handling of sensitive data is critical.
-- BERNAMA